Free to Sing

This unique presentation, created in collaboration with Strathmore, includes a dramatized history of the nation’s first African-American opera company in the United States (written by Michael Rosenberg and Shelley Brown), as well as a complete concert version of the first American operetta: Julius Eichberg’s delicious The Doctor of Alcantara (1866), a smash hit in its day. The creative team includes Emmy Award-winning director Scot Reese and the internationally acclaimed Morgan State University Chorus.